Today I was curious about creating a landing page for Wild Souls, but I wanted it to have a different appearance than the usual site layout. After some research and experimenting, I now present this tutorial!

-Step 1-

You’re going to need to open class_template.php and scroll down to the function “assigntemplateVars”. Add this string of code underneath the other assigned variables:

What this does is get the name of the page you are currently on. This is in place of getting the file name, which constantly returned “index”. So if you visited “yoursite.com/about” for example, it would return “about”. That’s what we’re going to need that further on.

-Step 2-

Now go to the folder of the theme you are currently using and make a new tpl file. It can be called whatever you like, but for the sake of this tutorial I’ll call it “landing.tpl”.

Open it up and add in the HTML of your desired layout (including body tags). Here is an example of mine: